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@Natuwu @jamesh @0xabad1dea What they’re doing is disrupting the concept of service availability!

@datarama @Sphinx_Pouet @noodlemaz Worth noting, though, that these are the Copilot *for individuals* terms of use. I haven’t been able to find a similar document governing Microsoft’s liability for using Copilot for work, and I’d love to get one.

@gracie @Em0nM4stodon The point is that a lot of companies involved in transactions today sell information about the transactions they process to hundreds of companies unrelated to the transactions. This started as a way to slightly cut the fees charged to merchants so as to undercut competitors, but now it’s just a common business practice.

Full anonymity would be nice, but it’s possible to be better than the nightmare we have today without it.

@rasterweb @nina_kali_nina All states have a capital city, which is the seat of government for the state.

All states have a building which houses the legislature and sometimes the executive branch heads. Not all states call this the “capitol building”.

@Gargron It seems to me like there are about as many well-lit, well-graded movies as there have always been, but that there are more movies overall than there ever have been in the past. A lot of movies—even from big studios—are basically shovelware, yes. A lot of really good production and post techs have gone to prestige TV rather than movies, yes. Still, there have been tons of expertly-produced movies in the last decade.

@alice Mistakes Roo, Captain Kangaroo’s much less successful cousin.

@nina_kali_nina I don’t know, the English subtitles of Das Boot insert a lot of profanities which weren’t spoken.

@doragasu @lina Probably. LLMs are hilariously bad at dealing with linguistic ambiguities like puns.

One of my favorite ambiguities I’ve seen was saying some people “lie about the family tree”. Are they being deceptive on the topic of relations, or are they reclining around a plant tended by multiple generations?

@agowa338 @rebane2001 MacOS and Windows both have plain OpenSSH, and the listed escape sequences work on both.

@glent @Hierarchy @pikesley Geothermal wells can sink ridiculous amounts of heat. Space is at a much greater premium. Carving a chunk out of the interior of a mountain is difficult.

Power feeds and network links are probably easier targets.

@mwl It’s not a thing anymore on remotely modern drives. There isn’t really a fastest part of a drive anymore.

Data locality (i.e, arranging related data on sequential tracks to reduce seek distance) can still be a thing, but it’s mostly not worthwhile on multitasking systems. It’s too easy for the OS to stick some other I/O operation into your carefully planned sequence, thereby throwing off your minimal seeks.